Rei Zhang won Sunday’s SCG Tour Online Historic $5K Innistrad Championship Qualifier #1 with Jund Food (Jegantha).
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Zhang earned an invite to the Innistrad Championship and $1,500 by winning the 151-person event, only dropping a single match in the Swiss. Zhang entered the elimination rounds as the No. 8 seed and started with a win over Octavian Victor Ghindea on Mono-White Humans in the wild card playoff round. From there, Zhang took down the top seed, Adam Bruni, in a Jund Food (Jegantha) mirror and Marco Cammilluzzi on Abzan Humans to reach the finals. In the last match, Zhang 2-0d Guilherme Merjam on Simic Merfolk — one of the decks that gained the most from Jumpstart: Historic Horizons.
Zhang’s winning list only featured one card from Jumpstart: Historic Horizons in Ravenous Squirrel. Merjam’s Merfolk deck had Shoreline Scout, Svyelun of Sea and Sky, Master of the Pearl Trident, and Merrow Reejerey. Masahide Moriyama also made the Top 12 with Merfolk.
Creatures (34)
- 4 Merrow Reejerey
- 4 Silvergill Adept
- 4 Master of the Pearl Trident
- 4 Kumena's Speaker
- 4 Merfolk Mistbinder
- 4 Merfolk Trickster
- 1 Mistcaller
- 1 Glasspool Mimic
- 4 Svyelun of Sea and Sky
- 4 Shoreline Scout
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- 3 Merrow Reejerey
- 4 Silvergill Adept
- 4 Master of the Pearl Trident
- 4 Kumena's Speaker
- 4 Merfolk Mistbinder
- 4 Merfolk Trickster
- 4 Svyelun of Sea and Sky
- 4 Shoreline Scout
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Spells (8)
While Jeskai Control and Jund Food (Jegantha) were the most played decks at 27 copies each, Simic Merfolk was the surprise next most played deck at 14 pilots. Selesnya Company had 13 pilots, though it can broken down into two subsets of decks with one version being a more taxing deck with creatures like Archon of Emeria and Elite Spellbinder and the other a combo deck with Heliod, Sun-Crowned and Scurry Oak.
Aggressive and taxing Humans decks also showed up with Mono-White and Abzan checking in at 12 and six copies, respectively.
Creatures (31)
- 4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
- 2 Thraben Inspector
- 4 Thalia's Lieutenant
- 4 Kitesail Freebooter
- 4 Ranger-Captain of Eos
- 1 Giant Killer
- 2 General Kudro of Drannith
- 2 Luminarch Aspirant
- 4 Elite Spellbinder
- 4 Esper Sentinel
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Creatures (38)
- 4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
- 4 Thraben Inspector
- 4 Thalia's Lieutenant
- 4 Dauntless Bodyguard
- 3 Ranger-Captain of Eos
- 3 Giant Killer
- 4 Skyclave Apparition
- 4 Luminarch Aspirant
- 4 Elite Spellbinder
- 4 Esper Sentinel
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The metagame breakdown for decks with more than two pilots in the event can be seen below.
| Archetype | Copies |
|---|---|
| Jeskai Control | 27 |
| Jund Food (Jegantha) | 27 |
| Simic Merfolk | 14 |
| Selesnya Company | 13 |
| Mono-White Humans | 12 |
| Orzhov Auras (Lurrus) | 7 |
| Abzan Humans | 6 |
| Rakdos Arcanist (Lurrus) | 5 |
| Mono-Red Madness | 3 |
| Jeskai Indomitable Creativity | 3 |
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